CVE-2008-1569 (GCVE-0-2008-1569)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:24
VLAI
Summary
policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used when creating a socket.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28480 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.policyd-weight.org/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/29553 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/43888 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2008-03-28 00:00
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